That's too complicated - just read in the xml file as text and use a sub string function to find the stuff you need in between the elements
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RE: Don't know what's wrong with Oracle...
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RE: Oracle People
<FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #efefef">Yes! Excellent Katja! I can see it now...</FONT>
<FONT size=3>New Microsoft Sqoracle, </FONT>
taking the great management toolset from Oracle and implementing it over the SQL Server Database - Get it today, for free!
<FONT size=1>(Free - that is, unless you try to implement it in a production environment, when we will charge you $500 for every user that might possibly have access to it and if you use it on the web, that's about 500,000,000 people so go figure...)</FONT>
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RE: I wonder what inspired that IBM engineer?
I have been told that it's easy to find the clittermouse if you are a woman - don't understand why, probably an IBM design thing, or maybe just because you are smart...
Maybe the huge part of the brain that is normally used for buying shoes can be re-trained to find the clittermouse (on a thinkpad)? Maybe IBM have realised that...
Just a theory [8-)]
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RE: I wonder what inspired that IBM engineer?
Okay, I have to tell the truth and say that when those Thinkpads first came out we used to call that mouse thing the "Clittermouse".
Honest.
Some of the guys in the team had a lot of trouble finding it, too...
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RE: Thanks for the refund
j0 Lexi - Hey! Post that again with the salary filled in so we can all see how much you earn!!!!! What a spoiler!!!
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RE: Oracle People
Look guys - stop trying to get me to *use* Oracle again!
Now that I am doing a lot more development in my new job here, we use Oracle and SQL Server for different clients. All the highly skilled and experienced developers here agree that although Oracle is a good database, its tools are junk and its difficult to administer. That won't change anytime soon.
In response to the suggestion that its easy to do cold backups on Oracle "just shut it down and copy the files" that's great. What about hot backups - how easy are they? I'm intrigued to know...
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RE: Oracle People
The day I DBA Oracle will be the day my feet stick to the frozen surface of hell...
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RE: Cordless Phones 5.8
Aw come on...
"Best Gay Erotic Fiction"?
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RE: Oracle People
<font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #efefef">Yeah, there are things that I could have done better and I learned from my mistakes, however, the mistake in hiring him was that I assumed that like an SQL developer, he would have some DBA skills. I also didn't reckon that Oracle was so lacking in basic management tools. I also (and this is my get out) actually asked him if he knew how to manage the database and he said yes - I didn't realise that he meant "as a developer, I know how to create tables and stuff, I actually have no idea about DB administration..."
As for rolling it out - well yes, I don't expect a developer to know how the organisation should roll the software out. However, I certainly don't expect him to ignore an instruction to develop something in a particular language (VB) and do it in PL/SQL. Also, when you write software, you should understand that it will need to be rolled out - writing something the can only be run through SQL PLUS shows a fundamental lack of understanding of all the user interface / usability issues surrounding software development - again, I would be surprised to find an MS developer that had not had to deal with these issues, although I am sure that some exist, it is more difficult to hide this sort of lack of experience in the MS camp...
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